April 2010

04/28/2010

A graduate of Marquette University and the University of Wisconsin Law School, Nichelle Mitchem has built a career around assisting others. Most recently, Nichelle Mitchem was the Executive Director of My Sisters Place, Inc., which provides comprehensive and holistic programs and services for indigent, homeless, battered women and their children. Applying her extensive experience in service provision to vulnerable populations to her role, Nichelle Mitchem oversaw long-term goals at My Sisters Place, Inc. Nichelle Mitchems achievements included but was not limited to augmenting the organizations community presence through marketing and public relations campaigns. As a result of her unwavering commitment to improving the quality of life for battered women and their children, My Sisters Place, Inc. enhanced its capacity to provide a broad array of programs and supportive services, including emergency shelter, transitional housing, case management, and a 24-hour crisis hotline. A published author, Nichelle Mitchem has contributed research to several leading periodicals. Nichelle Mitchems articles include Legal Needs Assessment for the Aged, which appeared in BIFOCAL from the American Bar Associations Commission on Law and Aging, as well as Elderly Legal Needs Assessment, which appeared in AGING Magazine, published by the Administration on Aging within the United States Department of Health and Human Services. Before working at My Sisters Place, Inc., Nichelle Mitchem served as the Director of Operations of a new university based national initiative dedicated to disseminating knowledge about best practices in service provision to the growing number of kinship care providers from 2002 to 2005. From 1999 to 2002, Nichelle Mitchem was Executive Director of Women Against Abuse, Inc., the largest domestic violence agency in the state of Pennsylvania.

As the Executive Director of My Sister’s Place, Inc. in Washington, D.C., Nichelle Mitchem drew on her decades of experience with nonprofit organization administration to enhance the agency’s capacity to better serve indigent, homeless, battered women and their children. Using her expertise in service provision to vulnerable persons, the agency was better able to provide comprehensive and holistic programs and services including but not limited to: case management, emergency shelter and tran...See Full Profile

For almost a decade, Nichelle Mitchem has served as an executive director of nonprofit organizations providing comprehensive programs and services for families in need. As a result, Nichelle Mitchem has significant experience in setting and achieving both short as well as long- range operational, programmatic and budgetary goals. One of her primary responsibilities is to enhance the organization’s health and viability in order to ensure that the agency has the capacity to actualize its mission. While serving as an administrator of nonprofit agencies, Nichelle Mitchem has engaged in operational and strategic planning which has set forth the requisite framework for continued growth and development.

For much of her professional career, Nichelle Mitchem has worked for nonprofit organizations dedicated to ensuring that families in crisis have access to very necessary supportive services required to improve the quality of their lives. These organizations promote client empowerment and provide comprehensive and holistic programs and services for vulnerable families including: emergency shelter, transitional housing, case management, childcare, after-school and summer programs, parent education, as well as transportation. Her professional history includes extensive experience in program development, implementation, administration and evaluation. Through the enhancement of internal programs and the coordination of services with external service providers, Nichelle Mitchem has sought to create a comprehensive service delivery model for clients. As a senior staff member, Nichelle Mitchem has launched program evaluation initiatives designed to ensure that agency programs and services are continuing to effectively meet the changing needs of clients and the agency’s mission, goals and objectives.

As the executive director, one of her primary responsibilities has been to raise both the visibility and accessibility of the agency to the public. Working in collaboration with the board and staff, Nichelle Mitchem has been involved in public relations and marketing campaigns that have served to heighten organizational presence in the larger community. In recognition of the importance of a coordinated community response to social problems encountered by low and moderate income persons, Nichelle Mitchem has built and maintained enduring strategic relationships with social service providers, government entities and other organizations in the community to ensure the availability of a comprehensive and compassionate internal as well as external continuum of care for clients.

Nichelle Mitchem has spoken at national and regional events on numerous topics concerning family welfare. Nichelle Mitchem’s presentations include “Foster Care Versus Adoption, Custody, and Guardianship by Relative Caregivers,” which she gave at the Annual Adoption Conference in Los Angeles, California, and “Domestic Violence Intervention and Prevention,” presented at the Breaking the Silence Conference in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

A published author, Nichelle Mitchem has contributed research to several leading periodicals. Nichelle Mitchem’s articles include “Legal Needs Assessment for the Aged,” which appeared in BIFOCAL from the American Bar Association’s Commission on Law and Aging, as well as “Elderly Legal Needs Assessment,” which appeared in AGING Magazine, published by the Administration on Aging within the United States Department of Health and Human Services.

Dedicated to serving disenfranchised persons, Nichelle Mitchem has held several leadership positions for a number of local, statewide, and national nonprofit organizations. Nichelle Mitchem has served on the Board of Directors for the Kiwanis Club in Atlanta, the New Jersey-based Morris County Mental Health Association, where she also served as Vice President, The Pennsylvania Coalition Against Domestic Violence, The Georgia Coalition Against Domestic Violence, as well as the National Advisory Committee for A Better Philadelphia.

Nichelle Mitchem received her Bachelor of Arts degree in History from Marquette University. In addition, Nichelle Mitchem obtained her law degree from the University of Wisconsin Law School.